Key Insight: ordered forensic examination and sanctions (threatened terminating sanctions) for failure to disclose reconstructed hard drive
Nature of Case: personal injury
Electronic Data Involved: computer files
Keywords: converted motion for sanctions to motion to compel
Key Insight: Spoliation sanctions must remedy the harm caused by the loss, and if documents are produced there is little loss
Nature of Case: Intellectual Property (Trade secrets)
Electronic Data Involved: E-mail
Key Insight: Sanctions were appropriate for a fraudulently edited email entered into evidence
Nature of Case: Judge removal
Electronic Data Involved: E-mails
Key Insight: False statements about loss of evidence more easily prove intent wrt spoliation
Nature of Case: Breach of contract
Electronic Data Involved: Emails
Key Insight: Intentional spoliation but with no bad faith and little prejudice leads to only costs and fees sanctions
Nature of Case: Intellectual property
Electronic Data Involved: Electronic documents
Key Insight: Gross negligence does not necessarily prove intent on loss of electronic documents
Nature of Case: Contract
Electronic Data Involved: Warehouse data, e-mails
Key Insight: Failure to produce discovery and making misrepresentations about the nature and content of documents so as to not produce them.
Nature of Case: trademark infringement
Electronic Data Involved: business documents, text messages, personal messages of employees.
Keywords: Compel, “chinese privacy law” misrepresentation,
Key Insight: Failure to disclose computing devices or to preserve documents, and doing so intentionally led to an adverse inference
Nature of Case: Intellectual property infringement (trademark and copyright)
Electronic Data Involved: Electronic documents, text messages
Keywords: Spoliation, Hendrix, adverse inference, anti-forensic software
Key Insight: Defendant’s unsupervised and under inclusive ESI searches remedied by additional searches and disclosure of previous search paramaters
Nature of Case: Fraudulent telemarketing
Electronic Data Involved: Audio recordings
Keywords: Telemarketing, Fishman, mortal mistake
Key Insight: whether the 37(e) sanctions are appropriate
Nature of Case: Invasion of privacy
Electronic Data Involved: metadata, active data from laptop
Keywords: ipad
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